Re: marshall interface needed?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:14:24 -0400
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FD3E558B-D514-4A72-9B30-C3C5BD9F83F0@microsoft.com

The question I asked is from the reentrancy issue. From the code I
quoted below, STA will call MTA component from interface pDummy
directly (so, once I thought if the callee MTA, no need to call
either GIT (global interface table) or
CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream).


CoCreateInstance will automatically do marshalling for you if you try to
create a component on a thread not suitable for this component.

In the example, if I recall correctly, an MTA thread tries to create a
component that's registered as apartment-threaded. In this case, COM
creates a new thread, has it initialize STA, creates a component on that
thread, and marshals its interface pointer back to the calling MTA
thread. At the end of the day, the MTA thread gets a properly marshalled
proxy.
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